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...Fugitive. What a clinker! I'd have lost money if they'd made me a present of it and paid the express...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Behind the Popcorn Popper | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

...accuracy, in greenish gobs of shadow laced with silvery threads and buttons of light. He had put the paint on thickly, Murch explained, because "that helps create a thing out of the painting itself." Among his table-top subjects were a dead bird, a dead fish poised on a clinker, an ancient phonograph, and assorted eggs, lemons and potatoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: On the Table | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

...Admired Unread. As a sampler of vintage literature, Pritchett has excellent taste. These 32 brief essays (many of which have appeared in London's New Statesman and Nation) restore the grandeur of such unvisited landmarks of English fiction as Humphrey Clinker, Middlemarch, Heart of Midlothian, Edwin Drood. They reduce to scale some modern writers-Wells, Bennett, D. H. Lawrence-while adding to the dimensions of several continental Europeans and two Americans: Walt Whitman and Stephen Crane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First Reader | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

Later they recorded three more sides: the mood, Pastiche, a violent Rimsky-Korsakov; the two "jumpers," Double Doghouse (using two bass fiddles instead of one) and A Slight Case of the Shakes, Brick's version of a hangover. "Not a clinker" (sour note), said the maestro happily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Brick's Boys Go Riding | 7/30/1945 | See Source »

...clinker-a bad or sour musical note...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Radio Webster | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

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